New Obama vid: Get out there, Pennsylvania

posted at 4:41 pm on November 2, 2012 by Erika Johnsen

Not too long ago, I doubt many would’ve thought that a video like this would have been necessary… but the times, they are a-changin,’ friends. In a world in which President Obama can’t get above 47 percent among the crunchy constituents of Oregon, a Romney win in the Keystone state — which elected a Republican governor in 2010, by the way — is more than possible. The state is squarely in the tossup category, and Team Romney has been moving in.

So, get out there and vote, Pennsylvanians! Volunteer! It’s a tight race and Team Obama needs you! Walk until you… er, can’t walk anymore? [Subtext: Gulp.]

Team Obama has deemed Romney’s recent bid for Pennsylvania to be a “desperate” move, but they can hardly be just flailing around in the electoral wilderness if Team Obama is nervously matching that move, can they? No, no; the post-debate wave of Mitt-mentum definitely swept through Pennsylvania, and now Team O is left trying to stem the flow. Via the WSJ:

Yet one of the surprises of the past month is a quietly competitive race for Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes. …

Republicans in the collar counties had little reason for enthusiasm before the first debate. The morning after Denver, the party office in Bucks was overrun with people looking for Romney-Ryan lawn signs. The Romney message strategy echoes that of Sen. Toomey and other successful GOP candidates here two years ago: Talk about jobs and debt, appeal to bipartisanship, and avoid the subjects of abortion and religion as much as possible.

As it happens, Mr. Romney is the first Northeasterner to get the Republican nod since the Connecticut native Bush 41 in 1988. He looks and sounds like Republicans whom Pennsylvanians have voted for in the past. Texas swagger and Sarah Palin didn’t play well in Bucks. …

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I’m hopeful. Walked by an Obama phone bank in Ardmore yesterday, and it was mostly young people making phone calls. Lot’s of Romney signs on the lawns so I think Delaware and Chester Counties will go Romney. Not sure about Montgomery or Bucks

With the tightening in the polls, I admit I am feeling a little anxious. Someone talk me down. Romney was way, way up with indys. What the hell are these pollsters doing now with that count? I don’t get how things are changing. How in the hell could anyone be planning to vote for that freak in the Walmart vinyl bomber jacket?! How?! HOW?!

With the tightening in the polls, I admit I am feeling a little anxious. Someone talk me down. Romney was way, way up with indys. What the hell are these pollsters doing now with that count? I don’t get how things are changing. How in the hell could anyone be planning to vote for that freak in the Walmart vinyl bomber jacket?! How?! HOW?!

How do you get tickets? I can’t access the campaign website at work but I will try to get one tonight.

BTW, by this time in 2008 Obama had done three events in Bucks County, and on the Saturday before the election he had a rally in downtown Philly that drew about 50,000. He hasn’t been in the state once in this entire campaign.

LOL! Yeah, who knew that a state that was supposed to be a lock for Bronco Bamma is now causing panic in the democrat party? Romney will win Ohio and PA. I won’t be surprised if Obama loses NJ and NY the way things are going there right now!

With the tightening in the polls, I admit I am feeling a little anxious. Someone talk me down. Romney was way, way up with indys. What the hell are these pollsters doing now with that count? I don’t get how things are changing. How in the hell could anyone be planning to vote for that freak in the Walmart vinyl bomber jacket?! How?! HOW?!

The leftist pollsters were able to skew things to keep Obama up 1 point but then they realized that everyone caught on that the internals and the breaking away of the indies wasn’t lining up with their top line… so they shifted gears again to obscure the indies. It is all smoke and mirrors.

I don’t know, I think it is possible for Romney to win PA and WI and lose Ohio. And I think that is why he is coming here. Ohio is not a done deal. Obama has been there 35 times since 2009 and has put all his eggs in that basket. We should not be kidding ourselves, it might have worked. But he might have sewn up Ohio only to lose Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

It’s also possible that the Democrats are right, this is a desperation move by Romney because he is going to lose Ohio or some of the other swing states.

I just know what I have heard and seen in my own community, which is massive defection of 2008 Obama voters to Romney, and almost zero enthusiasm for Obama.

While this may sound implausible, listening to the interview Ed did with Jim Lee of Susquehanna Polling & Research it seems Jim was hinting that PA is MORE likely to go to Romney then OH. He cited unemployment being much higher in PA and the bail out being unpopular there as opposed to OH. He seemed to also be hinting that his last poll which will be released Sunday will show Romney ahead in PA.

Starving New Yorkers/New Jerseyites turning on Obama in droves as food, water and gas lines get longer and longer and power will not be restored for weeks…these poor people were simply not important enough to keep bronco bomma from partying in Vegas…video this will be all over the media for the next 3 days…
Sad….

bho YOU own it, you did it to all the coal states. I might add you told the US what you would do to any business that wanted to build a coal plant, and NOW you want those YOU put out of business to go out and ‘getter done’ for U! I hope every state bho has slammed votes R&R!

My tiny blood plumper is all a twitter for a major bho defeat on the polls when he gets the boot!
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I don’t think Romney will win OH. The polling out today with the exception of Rassmusen is dreadful in OH. And pretty much everywhere else.

Raquel Pinkbullet on November 2, 2012 at 5:00 PM

bronco bomma is not going to win Ohio…no matter how heavily the leftist media try and weight for democrats and hid independents…it aint gonna happen…hopenchange is fading away right before their very eyes…

I don’t think Romney will win OH. The polling out today with the exception of Rassmusen is dreadful in OH. And pretty much everywhere else.

Raquel Pinkbullet on November 2, 2012 at 5:00 PM

bronco bomma is not going to win Ohio…no matter how heavily the leftist media try and weight for democrats and hid independents…it aint gonna happen…hopenchange is fading away right before their very eyes…

Strike Hornet on November 2, 2012 at 5:04 PM

I also don’t think Obama is going to win Ohio. There’s something weird going on here this year. Obama only got 2800 at his rally this morning.

My now elderly aunts and uncles in Philly was raised to believe that the world belonged to Democrats. FDR sat at the right hand of God. The only disharmony was when my uncles (who served in WWII) voted for Ike. That led to hot times around the dinner table!

I have to admit I feel bad for all these young people that are buying into Obama. Can you imagine getting out of college recently or in the near term, in debt and shrinking prospects for work?

It typically takes a lot of work, good decisions and a little luck to attain a decent station in life and these kids are eating their seedcorn at a young age.

Obama wants to control their healthcare, their college loans at more than double the rate before he took that over and pile us and especially them with debt that will not allow them to know what freedom is. Retirement income on interest bearing accounts have dropped and the need of their parents to access that nest egg will wipe out their inheritences.

And then imagine them as 45 year olds trying to figure out where it all went wrong? I’ve got to admit it looks like fun and games but these kids are really running off a fiscal cliff and doing their best to take us with them.

bronco bomma is not going to win Ohio…no matter how heavily the leftist media try and weight for democrats and hid independents…it aint gonna happen…hopenchange is fading away right before their very eyes…

Strike Hornet on November 2, 2012 at 5:04 PM

I also don’t think Obama is going to win Ohio. There’s something weird going on here this year. Obama only got 2800 at his rally this morning.

buckichick1 on November 2, 2012 at 5:08 PM

We played this ALL the polls are screwed game in 2008 and lost. Bottom line is this, the polls out of OH have been dreadful for Romney. But everyone has said that in the polls Romney has a huge edge among independents. Possible.
However, if you want to believe Rassmussen, Romney loses independents in OH by 9 points and is TIED. All the other polls show Romney up big with independents while losing OH by 3-5 points.

Which is right? IF you choose to believe Rassmussen it means Romney will win OH in spite of independents going for Obama. Or the other polls Romney loses OH but wins Independents.

The Cancel the NYC Marathon FB page is reporting that it has been cancelled.

d1carter on November 2, 2012 at 5:15 PM

Nanny Bloomberg certainly has egg on his face. Betcha a thousand bucks he lets Zero “take credit” for the decision: “The president called me and convinced me…” Bloomy knows he’s going down in the next election, might as well try to take Romney with him.

People seriously need to stop listening to the lying media and Obama campaign about Ohio and the auto bailout. The auto bailout did nothing for two thirds of the auto workers in Ohio. Stop believing and spreading the lies already.

Full disclosure: I bought $2,500 worth of Obama shares on Intrade for $6.38/share on Obama to win the election on Intrade yesterday.(It’s now at $6.61).

I would be the happiest person ever if I lost that money.

Raquel Pinkbullet on November 2, 2012 at 5:13 PM

Good for you…thinking with your head and not your heart. That’s how you make money in the markets (stock & gambling). Obama has been strengthening every day this week in the gambling odds. Romney has zero chance without Ohio…zero.

The Voter Fraud division of the Benedict Obama Campaign got caught off guard! They didn’t think they would need their rigged voting machines in Pa. Now they have to rely on the Union thugs and their, paid multiple voters to pull out the Keystone State. Now you knoe Pa. You have to make up for the Legions of Union thugs and Dem Deceased voters, as well!
Addendum on the fight against Obama’s Enemy media: http://paratisiusa.blogspot.com/2012/09/an-open-letter-to-those-who-should-know.html?spref=tw

People seriously need to stop listening to the lying media and Obama campaign about Ohio and the auto bailout. The auto bailout did nothing for two thirds of the auto workers in Ohio. Stop believing and spreading the lies already.

MobileVideoEngineer on November 2, 2012 at 5:20 PM

Obviously I don’t BELIEVE the lies. But I am already a Romney voter. What we need to worry about is the low information dumb asses in OH who do.

So much for that Sandy bounce — and this in a Zero-friendly poll. Looks like it’s gonna be a Sandy decline…for Zero!

Yes!

Rational Thought on November 2, 2012 at 5:14 PM

Just wait till the weekend when all the video of these poor people suffering hits every media outlet, waiting on long lines for gas/food/water, dumpster diving for dinner with no power, no heat, no running water or toilets all while Obama parties in Vegas…not a good optics…

Good for you…thinking with your head and not your heart. That’s how you make money in the markets (stock & gambling). Obama has been strengthening every day this week in the gambling odds. Romney has zero chance without Ohio…zero.

Good for you…thinking with your head and not your heart. That’s how you make money in the markets (stock & gambling). Obama has been strengthening every day this week in the gambling odds. Romney has zero chance without Ohio…zero.

ZippyZ on November 2, 2012 at 5:23 PM

If my heart is going to be broken on 11/6, I might as well make some money off it. It won’t soften the blow.

As long as we hook PA, OH, or WI we win this thing. If we don’t, we lose. I’m confident but not so confident we can draw the small state inside straight which losing all 3 of them would require unless we pull off a miracle in MI or OR.

Just wait till the weekend when all the video of these poor people suffering hits every media outlet, waiting on long lines for gas/food/water, dumpster diving for dinner with no power, no heat, no running water or toilets all while Obama parties in Vegas…not a good optics…

Strike Hornet on November 2, 2012 at 5:24 PM

Um…there will be no such video on “every media outlet.” There will be video on a couple of outlets, maybe some local news, but the national media, with the exception of Fox, has a full-on news blackout of the clusterfark that is the hurricane aftermath. Don’t believe me? Check out Google news.

Basements all over Pennsylvania are abuzz with unemployed stoned recent college grads staring at their fading Obama posters and wondering what went wrong…
Their parents wearing Romney/Ryan shirts and voting for the guys that will get the stoners out of their basements…
LOL

The leftist pollsters were able to skew things to keep Obama up 1 point but then they realized that everyone caught on that the internals and the breaking away of the indies wasn’t lining up with their top line… so they shifted gears again to obscure the indies. It is all smoke and mirrors.

nitzsche on November 2, 2012 at 4:57 PM

The new trick is a very light screen fir likely voters…..you end up with a closer to registered voter poll than likely.

Look at the WAPO poll……79% of the respondents were likely voters yet only 62.3% voted 4 years ago, 60.7% 8 years ago, and 55.3% 12 years ago.

Um…there will be no such video on “every media outlet.” There will be video on a couple of outlets, maybe some local news, but the national media, with the exception of Fox, has a full-on news blackout of the clusterfark that is the hurricane aftermath. Don’t believe me? Check out Google news.

Rational Thought on November 2, 2012 at 5:32 PM

Sorry, but this will be the lead story all weekend…bad bad bad news for barky/biteme

Good for you…thinking with your head and not your heart. That’s how you make money in the markets (stock & gambling). Obama has been strengthening every day this week in the gambling odds. Romney has zero chance without Ohio…zero.

ZippyZ on November 2, 2012 at 5:23 PM

If dems turn out at greater numbers than they did 4 years ago…..but then pigs may sprout wings and fly on Tuesday as well.

Nanny Bloomberg certainly has egg on his face. Betcha a thousand bucks he lets Zero “take credit” for the decision: “The president called me and convinced me…” Bloomy knows he’s going down in the next election, might as well try to take Romney with him.

Rational Thought on November 2, 2012 at 5:19 PM

I heard it was the sponsors who did not want the marathon to go on. They must have a better PR sense than Bloomberg. So neither Obama nor Bloomberg should get credit for doing the right thing.

It’s simple. The problem with Obama’s campaign is Obama. Obama is trying to run away or against Obama’s record. That’s tough to do. So no matter what Obama does, the problem of Obama remains. Obama isn’t running against Romney. Obama is running against Obama. He’s using the Chewbacca defense as his campaign strategy and no one understands what his plan is because Chewbacca.